Amen Quote by Mark Twain

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

— Edward Albee

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.

— Edward Albee

My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might…

— Laurence Housman

“player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to…

— Aleatha Romig

“You play the hand you are dealt. To dwell on the cards you would have preferred is to allow others to play theirs before…

— Andy Livingstone

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write…

— Mark Rylance

“One-act [plays] are not strikingly remunerative, but, on the other hand, the veriest dullard could not spend more than a week in writing one.”

— Arnold Bennett

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

— Samuel Johnson

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own…

— J. B. Priestley

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I…

— Tom Stoppard

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in…

— Vivien Leigh

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it…

— Tennessee Williams